This week we shipped the AI Swear Jar, a somewhat passive aggressive tool for holding your coworkers accountable when they use AI without checking the output. Spot someone passing off unverified AI work? Bust them using a native Slack app or a form right on the site. They get an email, and they're asked to put money in the jar, scaled to their level: $1 for individual contributors, all the way up to $100 for the C-suite. Every donation goes to a rotating monthly cause.

The app looks simple on the surface, but moving from building a basic website to a real application posed some challenges. The app needed a backend, email notifications, a Slack app with a running tally, donation links, and dev, test and prod environments. More of the week went into setup and configuration than into building the app itself.

A lot of lessons learned. At the surface, it's a pretty basic and straightfowrard app, but there was a good bit of work to get done outside of purely generating the code. That means there was a lot of work done outside of the AI tools

Try it at https://www.aiswearjar.com

Shoutouts to the tools that made this week possible without a cost associated. Made building, trying, and testing far more straight forward.

- Supabase (https://supabase.com): database backend, with separate dev and prod
- Resend (https://resend.com): email notifications out to users
- ImprovMX (https://improvmx.com): email at my own domain, forwarded to any inbox.
- Every.org (https://www.every.org): donation processing, so the Swear Jar never holds anyone's money

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